NOUN
- Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine
- Mexican plant used especially for making pulque which is the source of the colorless Mexican liquor, mescal
How To Use maguey In A Sentence
- When one is flying in a plane and looks down one can still see marabu areas in Camaguey. CENTENNIAL YOUTH COLUMN
- The magueys are being used up or allowed to flower and aren't being replanted.
- This plant, a bromelia, is of the same genus as the _Agave Americana_, and by travellers often confounded with the latter, though quite a distinct plant from the _maguey_ of cultivation. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
- This reminded one student of the maguey, and he enthusiastically described to the class the process of making mescal and tequila from that cactus plant.
- A maguey (agave) and a bisnaga (cactus) are two Durangan plants that are very symbolic of the Mexican flora. A maguey (agave) and a bisnaga (cactus) are two Durangan plants that are very symbolic of the Mexican flora. © 2008, Jeffrey R. Bacon
- Oriente, also a nonfulfillment in Camaguey, even though they were achieving PREMIER CASTRO 20 MAY REPORT ON SUGAR HARVEST
- Once allowed only to Aztec nobles and priests, pulque is produced by cutting out the center of a Maguey cactus and collecting the liquid which rises from it. Just One And I Have To Go - The Joys Of Pulque
- Maguey is a kind of agave with succulent leaves and a sharp thorn on the tip.
- Hats, mats, hammocks, and baskets are made with different types of cane and reed as well as fibers from the maguey cactus.
- When he returned with bottles of pulque - the fermented sap of the maguey cactus - the reporter had thrown his head violently backward.
